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Marching band videos

Emily — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:57:09 +0000

Dad says: Emily performed with the Central Valley High School marching band yesterday at the Sounds of Thunder marching band competition in Spokane. They brought home the Grand Sweepstakes award and swept the caption awards for their division.

The competition was fun but it was freezing! We were given hot bag thingies to keep our hands warm. They worked pretty well until we went to the awards ceremony. We had our gloves on every second before this so our hands had stayed pretty warm but we weren’t allowed to wear them during the ceremony so our hands were numb. At the last performance I could not feel my fingers or move them so I ended up playing most of the song with two fingers! Besides this little detail I had lots of fun, not to mention we kicked the other people’s butts! In the video I’m the one standing behind the black box thing, enjoy!

There was a YouTube video here from the competition, but it is gone. See this post for the other video from the competition.

This video was taken last weekend at the Cavalcade of Bands in Pasco, Washington. Emily is at the synthesizer, behind the black box to the left of the timpani.

My first orchestra concert of the year

Emily — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:40:46 +0000

This was our first concert of the year and our very first concert with the band and choir. We very sadly, stunk. However the band and choir insisted that we were better than them which I don’t think is true. Remeber this was our first concert so we had an excuse. Enjoy!

P.S.(We stunk!)

Video after the break.

Crystal Moon

Rosin Eating Zombies from Outer Space

For the Star of County Down

Mt. Hood!

Emily — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:32:04 +0000

This weekend I got an amazing opportunity. My orchestra and I got to go Mt. Hood for a competition!

In this video we are playing Sonota (Snot!) for Strings, the fourth movement, in the finals. We ended up winning fourth place out of 20 schools!

We had a blast in Oregon and we learned a lot. (I know, we were supposed to be out of school!) But other than the learning , it was the most awesome thing of the year!

Hope you enjoy! I am right smack in the middle playing the viola.